ToonRandy 🍂 (Now on Ko-fi!) (🎂 1 day) @toonrandy.bsky.social Blue skies are here! Bi! Sometimes writer. Aspiring illustrator and fan art artist, plus animation and music lover — and lover of New York. 🙂
Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social Gus, Seattle, capybara enthusiast.
Missy Pray @mpray495.bsky.social Writer, dog parent, aspiring birder
Cathy Ballou Mealey @catballoumealey.bsky.social Picture book author
Scone lover
Pounce @pounces.bsky.social I mostly post unfinished oc art or doodles and rarely finish anything and maybe suggestive stuff
Brian Bowes @bbowesillustration.bsky.social 
Donald Iyare @donaldillustrates.bsky.social KidLit Illustrator ✏️🦋✍️ Linktr.ee/donnieben.draws
Jack Foster @jackfoster14.bsky.social Jesus follower, Kid lit illustrator, father, grandfather, animal lover
The Emperor's New Podcast @podcasttenp.bsky.social the Number one Emperor's New Groove podcast and creator of Fan made Groove content. Not affiliated with Disney. NO AI USE. PERIOD. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/FireBlastStudios
cheyanne ❥ commissions open! @mzch3y.bsky.social ‧₊˚✧ freelance 2D animator & digital artist
🌼 portfolio⇾ cheyannert.com
💐 commission info⇾ https://vgen.co/mzch3y & https://ko-fi.com/mzch3y
🌺 contact⇾ cheyr12@gmail.com
#art
1998 she/her uk
Can't DM!
Serineh Eliasian @seelillustrations.bsky.social ✨Kidlit illustrator and storyteller
✨Portfolio: www.serineheliasian.com
Natasha Rimmington @natasharimmington.bsky.social 🖌Childrens Book Illustrator 🖌 Rep'd by The Bright Agency.
Loves bears, binturongs and all fuzzy animals. Here to support artists 🫶
https://www.natasharimmington.com/
Brittney Glenn @brittney-draws.bsky.social ✨ Children's Book Illustrator
🖌️ Available for Freelance Projects
🔗 https://www.brittneyglenn.com/links
Maxwolfdraws @maxwolfdraws.bsky.social Silly Sketcher
Master Doodler ✏️
Joe Cepeda @joecepeda.bsky.social Illustrator/Author. 
Sue (Susan Uhlig) she/her @susanuhlig.bsky.social Married. Children's Author. Writing PB, MG, some YA. Kidlit. SCBWI Regional Advisor Emerita. Former Institute of Children’s Literature Instructor.
I write helps & book recs on my site susanuhlig.com.
WA state. Owned by cat.
Audrey Sauble @aesauble.bsky.social Children's author, science illustrator and nature educator | New release: Can a Rock Grow? (August 2026)
🐿️ aesauble.com
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Jyn Hall @jynhall.bsky.social Owned by 2 rescue dogs.
Adored by an amazing man who doesn't (much) mind being called by my last name.
Cali girl living in Georgia.
Neurospicy PB/MG kidlit writer #SCBWI, #12x12PB #LondonWritersSalon
#PBRisingStars Mentee 2026
All em dashes are my own—
Carrie Schneider Author/Illustrator @carrieschneider.bsky.social Autistic, ADHD, queer 🏳️🌈 author/illustrator of PB & MG books affirming neurodivergent and other identities. Literature PhD. Safe Space.
She/her.
PBRising Stars/PBParty honorable mention/runner-up ‘23/24/25
#amquerying #12x12pb
https://linktr.ee/Cs_au
Marcela Chermont ✏ Illustrator @marcelachermont.bsky.social 🖍️ Illustrator of books #kidlitartist
🐩 fearlessly drawing animals from the wilderness
inside my head 🦩🪴🦉🦒🐛
📚 Rep’d by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency
📍 www.marcelachermont.com
📧 hello@marcelachermont.com
inprnt.com/gallery/marcelachermont/
Paulette Bogan @paulettebogan.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator and Author. VIRGIL & OWEN Bloomsbury. Illustrated CHICKS & SALSA
BOSSY FLOSSY Holt
THE LOTS-OF -TIME MACHINE Two Lions. Rep’d by HG Literary. www.Paulettebogan.com
Sara Lynn Cramb @saralynncramb.bsky.social I draw things (mostly animals), drink tea, pet cats, and get lost in the woods 🐌
Toddler mom
https://www.saralynncramb.com/
Repp'd by AstoundUS Agency
#scbwi #kidlitart #sciart
Kate Arnold @illustratebykate.bsky.social Illustrator | Cat Enthusiast | SCBWI Member
Represented by Emelie Burl at Susan Schulman Literary Agency
www.katearnold.net
Alison Mutton @aleneart.bsky.social Perth 🇦🇺
Kidlit illustrator, designer, needle felter, swing dancer. Seeking kidlitart representation
www.alene-art.com
ashleylaffin @ashleylaffin.bsky.social Debut PB The Balloonimals available now!🎈Wife & mom💗 MFA Grad. Writer. Marketer. SCBWI member & guest blogger April ‘24. Kids’ Choice KidLit Writing Contest HM ‘24📚
Chris 🇨🇦 @stychentyme.bsky.social Father • Artist • Proud Canadian🇨🇦 • Comic Book Collector • Sci-Fi Aficionado • Cartoon Enthusiast • Die-Hard Canucks fan!!
Artic @artic32.myatproto.social 21 / M
Dragon enjoyer & certified goober
Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social The Dem Voice of Missouri with her 262 Substack https://jesspiper.substack.com/ / @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @reichard4rep.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social DMs ok 📚
Sara Olmos - Teconlene @teconlene.bsky.social Spanish illustrator and graphic designer based in Rome.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@saraolmosillustration
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SaraOlmosIllustration
Kris Easler @kriseasler.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator | Represented by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Lit Agency | she/her
www.kriseasler.com
kriseaslerart@gmail.com
☀️ Wei Wuxian’s vengeful frolic: the fic 📌 @sunshineandivy.bsky.social 20+ | 🇸🇱 | writer of short stories, poems & mdzs thread fics | icon by ThatKodo | they / she
tags: #mdzs #mdzsmusicau #originalpoetry #flashfiction (eventually)
Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Grimm‘s Illustrations @grimm-illustrates.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator 🖌️
SCBWI Member
I create digital and traditional illustrations
www.grimms-illustrations.com
Mirto - Looking for representation @mirtocomune.bsky.social I l l u s t r a t o r - s t o r y t e l l e r
He/They - 🇮🇹 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍉
🌈 https://linktr.ee/mirto_comune
📩 mirtomastroieni@gmail.com
🌟Hidden Under the Sun author with @martaart.bsky.social
OldeHippi🦋 @oldehippi.bsky.social Woodstock '69 alumni. Artist, writer/poet, vegetarian. Adore nature, animals, birds. Grateful to Jack for Bluesky and Twitter (B4 it was 'hacked'). Banned from Twitter right after BigHead dumped that sink into Twitter HQ.
No AI 🚫 no DM
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
The Overlord of Books and Authors @books.overlordshop.com We make the Unseen, seen. 100% Hate-free!
Tips welcome: https://ko-fi.com/overlordsvcs
Our Team
@music.overlordshop.com
@comics.overlordshop.com
@pcast.overlordshop.com
@games.overlordshop.com
@film.overlordshop.com
@things.overlordshop.com
IslandTwinArtists @islandtwinartists.bsky.social Hi! We're Dori and Kate! 💕 Identical twins, kidlit author-illustrators, educators, SCBWI members, bakers, nature lovers, moms of super kids and pets, neurodiverse 💞
✨ Joyfully seeking representation ✨
www.IslandTwinArtists.com
WOLLY @wollymight.bsky.social based in MPLS, creator of DEEPSTATES, Currently: lead compositor at Meatcanyon, VA in Dungeon Flippers, lead compositor on NDA, Prev: Adult Swim, Titmouse
https://wollymight.neocities.org/
Anisi Baigude | illustrator @anisibaigude.bsky.social 🖍️ Mongolian American KidLit Illustrator
📖 BORN NAUGHTY, Anne Schwartz Books
📖 ODI’S LIBRARY DAY, SDPL
📮 Rep'd by Analía Cabello at ABLA
📍San Diego, CA
linktr.ee/anisibaigude
Brittany Pearson @britspixels.bsky.social Asian American author / illustrator, represented by Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency. I draw cute, colorful, whimsy, and joy 🩷
#PBparty finalist ‘25
#SCBWI and #12x12 member.
www.britspixels.com
Andrea Wickert @librarymusthaves.bsky.social 🌳 Parent | ♡ Book Lover |📍Upstate NY
🖼️ Author + Illustrator
✨ Finding you the best children’s books
💻 Portfolio: andreawickert.com
📖 IG: instagram.com/librarymusthaves
🍄 Shop: shop.hedgerowgeneral.com
Mike Freveletti @frevma.bsky.social picture book writer | occasional poet | improviser | intermittent funny man
#picturebook #kidlit #12x12pb #PBParty #SCBWI
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
Jojo @jojovego.bsky.social Pixel Artist * Astral Goat 🪐🐐
She/her 47yo
⬛️💛🟥 🐨 Australian
🖤🩶🤍💜 Ace
Peacenik ☮️
I prefer Tofu ◽️ 🥬
Art made using https://bsky.app/profile/pixquare-app.bsky.social
Estela Bem (She/They) @estelabem.bsky.social #Kidlit Queer illustrator & author from Switzerland
Bold colors, whimsical worlds and cute characters
Looking for representation!
Biting n Clawing @bitingnclawing.bsky.social Mira ~ writing and illustrating because I like the process of it. My pets are my muses most of the time 🐾 #HumanArt
https://ko-fi.com/bitingnclawing
Musicals with Cheese | Podcast @musicalswithcheese.bsky.social Musicals with Cheese is a weekly comedy podcast in which musical expert Jess tries to get working-class layman Andrew to appreciate musical theatre, one show at a time!
M. Ireland @curiousmousestudio.bsky.social Narrative illustration | Mostly digital, sometimes traditional 🎨
Procreate 🖼️
She/Her 🐌
AI/NFT 🚫
Safe space ❤️
🇺🇸
ValleyCAST @valleycast.bsky.social An inclusive arts community in the Blackstone Valley. Arts & Culture wing of Open Sky https://openskycs.org
50 Douglas Rd Whitinsville Massachusetts
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Rik Mertens @rikmertens116.bsky.social - Graphic designer and Web coder
- Geek culture enthusiast
- Star Trek and Indiana Jones fan
Art Costiander @artcostiander.bsky.social Hyvän mielen taidetta
Maalauksia ja mielikuvitusta 🎨
Pehmeillä arvoilla ankeuttajia vastaan.
Kärkölä 🇫🇮
www.art-costiander.com
https://taiteellinen.etsy.com
Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Open to Representation
🌟 SCBWI India - Illustrator Co-ordinator
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
Illustration Jobs @illustration-jobs.com https://illustration-jobs.com is a free job board for illustrators.
Operated by two lovely humans 🇱🇧 🇵🇭 not bots or AI.
Cathleen Daniels @cathleendaniels.bsky.social SCBWI Kidlit Illustrator & Author looking for representation. Cathleendaniels.com
MiliFayArt.bsky.social @milifayart.bsky.social Story Artist, Illustrator, Author, Globe Trotter 🏆 Roger Allers Story Artist – Notable Contribution 2026! 🌎 On art and writing. ✍🏻 Staying positive most of the time. 💕 ☀️ 😊 https://milifay.art
✸ ilustradora mágica ✸ @pannysart.bsky.social Leyla Garza 🍞• 🇲🇽 • | 30 | Ilustradora infantil | KidLit illustrator • Ella/She/Ela • #kidLit 🌱(ENG/ESP/PT) http://pannyslinks.carrd.com
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Aislinn Hird @aislinn-hird.bsky.social Traditionally-based children's illustrator seeking representation.
I love books about natural phenomena, underrepresented cultures, and socioemotional growth!
https://ahird-on-paper.myportfolio.com/
Deb Johnson @debjohnsonart.bsky.social Children's Book Illustrator & Author
Portfolio: http://www.debjohnson.com
Available for all #kidlit and #kidlitart projects, especially sweet BB, PB, CB.
Shirley V T 🇨🇳🇨🇦🇵🇭🇹🇼 #veryasian #GN kidlit illustrator @svtworks.bsky.social Designer Architect 建築師 creative http://linktr.ee/svt.works #GN #NF #PB | #illustrator| #api 3x @canadacouncil always revising Pb+Prep Gn pitch sets #amquerying illustration.shirleyvting.com 📚 ✏️ |CLIPSTUDIO- AFFINITY-CAD & No 🧌, no TMI.
Steven B. Epstein @stevenbauthor.bsky.social Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Ameena | Kidlit Author & Illustrator @ameenasiddique.bsky.social ⭐️Animation & VFX Producer / PM⭐️
⭐️Children's Book Author & Illustrator⭐️
⭐️Aspiring Creator⭐️
Dagna Shvaya illustration @dagnaszwaja.bsky.social Polish illustrator
Editorial, posters, picture books, campaigns
Send me an email at dagna.szwaja@gmail.com
Jenna Daucunas @jennadaucunas.bsky.social I write picture books that celebrate nature 🌱and spark curiosity and connection to self, community, and our planet. 🌎 #scbwimember #12x12PB ☀️ jennadaucunas.com
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
@butterflygardens.bsky.social @butterflygardens.bsky.social 🇺🇸Christian Liberal, 💍 Married, 👩🏻🦼➡️Mobility Challenged, BLM, LGBTQ Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Climate Change is Real 🌎
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Elbows up! 🇨🇦
NO MAGA! 🤮 🚫NO KINGS!!!
🏴 ☘️🇮🇪 🇬🇧🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇭🇸🇪
@martharago.bsky.social @martharago.bsky.social Books, art, poetry, science, nature… no politics or nastiness generally, please.
Will Steele @willsteeledesign.bsky.social N. Irish - Book designer (London) - Children's Fiction - Usborne. Insta - willsteeledesign
Keen runner and occasional photographer.
www.willsteele.co.uk
Heather Dean Brewer @hdeanbrewer.bsky.social Author, Art Director at Eerdmans, Illustrator, & Michigander
LOVE IS POWERFUL
ONWARD: 16 Climate Fiction Stories
MEET ME IN YOUR HEART, 2026
heatherdeanbrewer.com
instagram.com/hdeanbrewer/
bracketpublishing.com
Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social 🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
https://linktr.ee/jshea_art
Jason Treat @jasontreat.bsky.social Senior graphics editor at NatGeo. Before that AD at The Atlantic. Work: https://www.jasontreat.com/ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. -Zappa
Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social A home for newspaper comic strips that have fallen out of memory.
@sherry130.bsky.social @sherry130.bsky.social 
Shaun Jex @shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Writer. Father. Husband. Pickle connoisseur.
he/him
Gerald Kelley // aka EG Keller @geraldkelley.bsky.social Jobbing illustrator ✍️ // open for work // Rep’d by Lori Nowicki @ Painted Words
Things 🖥️:: egkellerdraws.com/links
Chance Durant @chancedurant.bsky.social Author, Game Designer, TTRPG player, Nerd, Father, Husband, Christian, lover of all things Shenanigan, Co-Creator of Carbyne Jungle & LokDown TTRPGs, Author of Sci-Fi Novel Construct, Believer in Nazi Punching, Guillotined my Twitter account for blue skies
Erin Dealey--> Kidlit Author*Playwright @erindealey.bsky.social #Kidlit author repped by Deborah Warren @eastwestlit -- Blogger of author & illus. #BookBirthdays -- Playwright at Uproar Theatrics erindealey.com -- Happily MARRIED btw--
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Kaitlin Pinson @kapinson.bsky.social Agented YA Fantasy writer
*Follow my publishing journey alongside me
*Follow for reposts of helpful writing and publishing advice from industry professionals
Viriya L. Colin @allmicegotoheaven.bsky.social they/them
Medical physiology grad student from Thailand
I draw #KidLitArt & run campaign for forests and animals 🐭🌱🎨
Andy Catling Illustration @andycatbug.bsky.social International children's book Illustrator. Author of Kiss a Frog?YUK! https://catling-art.com/kissfrog- T ThaCDB @thatoneguy87.bsky.social Just some guy that likes nerdy stuff ( Comics,Animation,Pro Wrestling) Pronouns are He/Him
Sandy Jonas @sandyjonas.bsky.social Author/illustrator, she/her kidlit and cozies 🇨🇦 SCBWI member
Rep’d by Maura Kye-Casella
Lisa Winer @lisawiner.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, seeker of beauty in the everyday 🍃🌸🍃🌞🍃🌸🍃
✉️ lisamwiner12@gmail.com
View portfolios 👇
https://linktr.ee/Lisamwiner?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a65e0919-5bde-4c34-9c68-5f5bb9686877
HugORC D. @stuffbyhugo.bsky.social • Always anxious, always tired, never productive
• 27, he/him, 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈 ♾️
• Art & webcomics sometimes (see Feeds)
• Fan of cartoons, Nintendo games, musicals, and game shows
• Posts/Reposts might get a bit freaky
• Socials: https://stuffbyhugo.carrd.co/
Melizza Chernov ✨Open to Commissions✨ @melizzachernov.bsky.social #Kidlit Artist/Writer, love of #naturewalks #dogs, #books and #boardgames!
https://www.melizzachernov.com/
https://www.melizzachernov.com/contact
email: melizza@melizzachernov.com
Natalie Hoopes @nataliehoopes.bsky.social 🍄Illustrator
🌿Tired mom
☔️Casual witch
🦋Nature lover
🌻Repped by Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Literary @agenthawk.bsky.social
🏔️Portfolio: nataliehoopes.com
Rahsanart @rahsanart.bsky.social mixed media illustrator
🌷💌🖍️🎨🌾🐛🌻
Becky (Rebecca) Allen @tigerlilygraphics.bsky.social Freelance Graphic Designer & Illustrator from London ON Canada 🇨🇦 My assistant is Archie the ginger cat 🐱 When I'm not creating art you can often find me playing video games or curled up with a good book.
www.tigerlilygraphics.com
Raikka 🩵 Team Tragedy @minicapuccino.bsky.social artista, ilustradora, piadas de tio do pavê, voyeur de barraco e fofoca, videogames, desenhos, adoradora de bichinhos e basicamente um desastre ambulante que chegou à vida adulta sem saber como.
... mas pensa num coração bom.
Kids Comics Studio Anthology @kcsanthology.bsky.social Kids Comics Unite Studio members are up to something exciting as we create an anthology of kids comics coming in 2025!
Kickstarter: http://kck.st/4jEJkdv
Check us out at: https://kidscomicsunite.com/anthology/
Sarah Mensinga @sarahmensinga.bsky.social Artist & Writer. New graphic novel, Kindred Dragons, out now from Abrams Books! Lit rep: Mark Gottlieb at TMG.
https://www.sarahmensinga.com/
Carl Wiens @carlwiens.bsky.social Experimenting with pattern, colour, collage and science. Dedicated to working with different mediums, on a path of discovery. Anti AI.
Painter, illustrator, educator, citizen scientist, outdoor enthusiast
www.carlwiens.com